BizJournals: Washington and Lee didn’t change its name. Now no one is happy.
The latest article from The Business Journals (paywall alert) reports on the general feeling amongst the different groups of alumni on either side of the question.
Dabney S. Lancaster to Change Name
Update: WSLS also has the story up now. This provides a bit more detail than the article linked below.
Op-Ed: Remembering Lee Properly
The Miami Herald runs an op-ed by Justin McFarlin, “This Juneteenth, erase Robert E. Lee’s name, but not his history as this nation’s enemy.”
White Supremacy Was on Trial at Washington and Lee University. It Won.
Not Unmindful’s own Brandon Hasbrouck, an assistant professor of law at the School of Law, writes for Slate. Professor Habrouck opens the article with a brief summation of history, unadulterated and not wrapped in any mythmaking before getting to the main point of the article, as the title summarizes.
Opinion: What Washington and Lee has embraced
In an op-ed in the Washington Post in reaction to the announcement by the board of trustees, Colbert I. King lays out the answer to this question very clearly.
How Does a College Decide Whether to Change Its Name?
The Chronicle of Higher Education poses this question in an article by Sarah Brown talking about our situation along side that of Dixie State University in Utah…
Rennard: Disheartened W&L kept its name
In a piece in the Roanoke Times, 2007 alumnus, Mike Rennard reacts to the decision.
View: Will W&L be called Univ. of Confederacy?
In a letter to the editor in the Richmond Times Dispatch, Bill Melton, ’74U (and member of Not Unmindful) poses this very question. Lots of good stuff here.
BizJournals: Washington and Lee rejects effort to change name, vows to break from Confederate past
Business Journals reponds to the announcement of the decision to retain the name (warning: paywalled)
Instant Reactions to the Announcement from the Papers of Record
Here is the Washington Post’s article on the announcement (First out of the gate). It is followed by that of the New York Times
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